Dracula’s Wife

  Ilona Szilagyi, the cousin of Hungarian king Mathias Corvinus, grew up amid the luxury of court life in Buda. One of three daughters born to  Hungarian noble Michael Szilagyi  and Margit Bathory in 1446, IIona was a privileged young woman. During an age when...

Pancho Barnes

It’s Fab Female Friday! This week: Florence Lowe Barnes, aka Pancho. Maybe you’ve heard about this fearless gal! Aviatrix. Record breaker. Rancher. Stunt Flyer. Mom. Hollywood elbow-rubber. High-flyer. Pancho was born in Pasadena, California in 1901 and...

Fab Female Friday: Marie Laveau

Mystery, mayhem, and magic surrounds this fab female. Born in Haiti in 1794, this beautiful and multi-talented woman took New Orleans by storm. Voodoo storm! Other accounts claim  she was born in the French Quarter to a white farmer and African American woman. Marie...

Fab Female Friday:Boudicca

Bodacious Boudicca was the queen of the Icini tribe in Briton (the area is called Norfolk now) in AD 60. After her husband, King Prasutagus died, Roman publicani (crooked tax collectors) and loan sharks infested the land demanding MONEY $$. No frail flower, Boudicca...

Mary of Nazareth

It’s  Fab Female Friday and with only several days left before Christmas, I had no choice but to write about Mary, Mother of God. Icon. Saint. Legendary Jewish mother. Naturally, everyone knows about the biblical Mary. The woman is an icon of epic proportions. Images...

Cheng I Sao

This fab female was famous for her booty. Cheng I Sao, aka Zheng Yi Sao—which means Cheng’s wife—was more successful than any of the Beards—you know, Blackbeard or Blue Beard. Her life was the stuff of romance novels! A prostitute in Canton, China,...
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